Industry/Trades Programs and Courses

You will focus on business structure and financial management. You will focus on ownership types, financing, and liabilities of a business. You will identify the financial and business structures that will enable success in the workplace.

Theory and practical instruction is provided to prepare piping trades people to write the provincial General Gas examination. Persons wishing to write the exam must prove journeyperson status in the plumbing or pipe fitting trades as well as Saskatchewan Domestic Gas endorsement. Additional costs may be the CSA B149.1-15, B149.2-15, and B149.3-15 Gas Code books, Saskatchewan Supplements CSA 149.1-15, B149.2-15, and B149.3-15. As well as Dutton's "Industrial and Commercial Gas Burner Systems". If you do not have current versions, you will be required to purchase for continuation into the course. Contact Regina, or Saskatoon, Campus Bookstore (306-775-7755 or 306-659-4030) to order, at least two weeks prior to course start date.

You must register with the Apprenticeship Board at least one month prior to this course to write your exam. Please bring proper eye protection, work gloves, and work boots.

Instruction focuses on Gas installations and applications with gas loads over the 400,000 BTUH. Pre-requisite is Journeyperson status in the Plumbing or Pipefitting trade, along with a Saskatchewan Domestic Gas endorsement. Upon successful completion of this program, students can then apply to the Saskatchewan Apprenticeship branch for eligibility to write the provincial gas exam for Commercial gas certification.

Additional costs may be the CSA B149.1-15, B149.2-15, and B149.3-15 Gas Code books, Saskatchewan Supplements B149.1-15 and B149.2-15, and B149.3-15. As well as Dutto's "Industrial and Commercial Gas Burner Systems". If you do not have current versions, you will be required to purchase for continuation into the course. Contact Regina, or Saskatoon, Campus Bookstore (306-775-7755 or 306-659-4030) to order, at least two weeks prior to course start date.

You must register with the Apprenticeship Board at least one month prior to this course to write your exam. Please bring proper eye protection, work gloves, and work boots.

You will focus on the goals, functions and roles of leadership. You will learn what leadership is and what it takes to become a successful leader. You will examine different types of leaders, the ways that they are effective, and consider situations where one leadership style may be better than another.

You will focus on the goals, functions and roles of management. You will learn what management is and what it takes to become a successful manager. You will examine different types of managers, the ways that they are effective, and consider situations where one management style may be better than another.

This course is an online 16-hour course that covers the theory required for forklift operators. In order to receive certification to operate a forklift you should take FORK 1801 which also has the practical operation of a forklift.

You will learn the theoretical and practical application of the OTC
(Overhead Traveling Crane). Training emphasizes on practical and safetyoriented components of crane operation and rigging. Rigging is the safe use of hardware such as slings, shackles, eyebolts, chain hoists and comea-longs in lifting operations. Upon completion of all learning outcomes,
you will obtain a certificate stating you are a competent operator of up to
(but not including) 50 tonne Overhead Travelling Crane according to
OH&S regulations.
Saskatchewan Polytechnic also offers this course at dates and times
suitable for employers’ training staff.

This course will be delivered when the minimum number of students
has been reached. To place your name on the interest list or for more
information, call Sharon Hopkins at 306-765-1563 or email sharon.hopkins@saskpolytech.ca. You will be contacted when the interest
list has a sufficient number of people.
Please bring safety approved eye protection, work gloves, work
boots, calculator and tape measure

Saskatchewan Polytechnic serves 27,000 distinct students through applied learning opportunities at campuses in Moose Jaw, Prince Albert, Regina and Saskatoon, and through extensive distance education opportunities. Programs serve every economic and public service sector. As a polytechnic, the organization provides the depth of learning appropriate to employer and student need, including certificate, diploma and degree programs, and apprenticeship training. Saskatchewan Polytechnic engages in applied research, drawing on faculty expertise to support innovation by employers, and providing students the opportunity to develop critical thinking skills.